Food Policy

India Approves Draft Food Security Law

– India's federal cabinet Sunday approved a draft law on food security aimed at providing low-priced staples -- mainly rice and wheat -- to roughly two-thirds of the country's 1.2 billion people.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2011
Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong)
Tags:
India, Food Policy, Legislation, Food Security, Parliament, Rice, Wheat, Public Distribution System (PDS), Unemployment, Subsidies, Food Crops
Food Policy

Food Security Bill gets Cabinet nod

The Union Cabinet tonight cleared the much-awaited draft food security Bill, brightening the prospect of providing legal entitlement of food to three-fourth of the country’s rural population and half its urban dwellers.

Food minister K V Thomas said a meeting of the cabinet that cleared the Bill also decided to introduce it in the current session of Parliament.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Ministry Of Agriculture, Public Distribution System (PDS), Poverty, Parliament, Subsidies, Population, Economy, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Bill provides for cost sharing with States

The controversial targeted National Food Security Bill, which got the nod of the Union Cabinet on Sunday, is a pet project of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2011
Gargi Parsai
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Population, Public Distribution System (PDS), Ministry Of Agriculture, Wheat, Rice, Starvation, Malnutrition, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Cabinet to take up food Bill on Monday: Thomas

New Delhi The Cabinet will discuss the National Food Security Bill, 2011, on Monday, in a bid to introduce the proposed legislation in the current session of Parliament.

Food minister K V Thomas on Friday said discussions on the food Bill in the Cabinet which was deferred earlier this week would continue on Monday. “Discussions will continue when the Cabinet meets on Monday,” he told reporters.

Publication Date: 
17/12/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Parliament, Ministry Of Agriculture, Population, Public Distribution System (PDS), West Bengal, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Centre met Bengal food bill concerns

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s move to stall decision on the National Food Security Bill by writing a letter to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh just on the eve of the Cabinet meeting appears to have been more for political reasons than any serious objections.

Sources in the food ministry said that the Cabinet note on the Food Bill had included four key demands of the West Bengal government, which were already agreed upon by the Centre.

Publication Date: 
16/12/2011
Manish Anand
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, West Bengal, Subsidies, Poverty, Public Distribution System (PDS), Legislation, Wheat, Rice, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Food Bill may be taken up by Cabinet today

New Delhi The Cabinet is likely to consider the National Food Security Bill which envisages subsidised foodgrain as legal entitlement for two third of the country's population on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
13/12/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Population, Subsidies, Public Distribution System (PDS), Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Food security Bill will not ramp up subsidy: Thomas

New Delhi Just two days ahead of a crucial cabinet meeting to clear the UPA-II government’s National Food Security Bill (NFSB), food minister KV Thomas on Sunday said the country’s food subsidy wou

Publication Date: 
12/12/2011
Sandip Das
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Subsidies, Population, Public Distribution System (PDS), Parliament, Nutrition, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

All-round opposition to ‘targeted' Food Security Bill

Cutting across party lines, several members of Parliament backed a universal public distribution system to ensure food security for all citizens “as a right” on Tuesday and vowed to oppose the ‘tar

Publication Date: 
30/11/2011
Gargi Parsai
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Public Distribution System (PDS), Food Security, Parliament, Subsidies, Poverty, World Bank, Food Policy
Food Policy

Govt opposes Food Security Bill provisions

The Delhi government has opposed certain provisions of the National Food Security Bill draft saying the proposed universalisation of foodgrain entitlements to majority of the population would be ve

Publication Date: 
29/11/2011
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Public Distribution System (PDS), Population, Poverty, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies

National food security bill: major problems

The Bill interprets food security only as distribution of cereals and cooked meals and is completely silent on other important components of food security. There is no commitment towards nutritional security which also requires assurance of other components of nutrition such as pulses and oil.

Publication Date: 
28/11/2011
Right to Food Campaign
Tags:
Food Security, India, Public Distribution System (PDS), Poverty, Nutrition, Malnutrition

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